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...outrageous for Elizabeth Edwards to attack Hillary Clinton's electability. After all, the Clintons have a long track record of winning tough elections by comfortable margins, while John Edwards certainly can't make the same boast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...great fan of chess," Pichuzkin told the police as he handed over his diary to the police. Indeed, his neighbors and friends confirm he was good at resolving problems on a chessboard, a talent to boast about of in chess-mad Russia. But he turned into bloodsport what a Nabokov character saw as an existential revelation. In The Defense the novelist wrote of one chess-obsessed character's epiphany: "...he had seen something unbearably awesome, the full horror of the abysmal depths of chess. He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grandmaster of Murder? | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

...town of Portlaoise, home to about 15,000 people, is a pleasant if ordinary place, a convenient base for commuters an hour outside of Dublin, halfway to Limerick. The signs of immigration here are inescapable. Town streets boast Indian restaurants, Polish delis and construction galore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the land of a thousand welcomes | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...tired and cookie cutter," says America Online founder and former chairman Steve Case. His own frustration as a traveler led him in August to invest in Cacique, an $800 million, eco-friendly resort planned for Costa Rica's northwest coast. To stand out in the crowded luxury field, a boast about sheets with a thread count of 1,200 isn't enough. So Case and other hotel developers are trying to create a new model for luxury. Unlike the typical, walled-off resort, Cacique's hotel rooms and vacation homes will surround an authentic village where locals will both live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grander Hotel | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Harvard has consistently placed within the top few slots and has chosen to continue to participate in the rankings, which boast a readership of about two million, despite growing opposition among some college presidents, especially at liberal arts colleges...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Places Second in College Rankings | 8/25/2007 | See Source »

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